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A trio of City Council members says the deli owner who didn’t intervene when gangbangers dragged an innocent teen from his deli and slaughtered him should have his store shuttered.

“An owner who stands idly by while a 15-year-old is dragged out of his store and murdered in cold blood with a machete is no longer worthy of doing business in NYC,” reads a letter council members Ritchie Torres, Vanessa Gibson and Rafael Salamanca sent to the Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Lorelai Salas on Monday demanding the agency yank the deli’s business license.

Another video shows the sliced-up teen run into the deli after the attack, but a worker motions toward the door and the teen can be seen leaving moments later.

“While it may be unfair to expect a business owner, untrained in law enforcement, to perform heroics in the midst of savage gang violence, the failure to do something as basic as calling 911 is morally unconscionable,” the council members’ letter states.

Torres, who represents the district where the killing took place, spoke directly with NYPD, who told him the deli owner did not call 911, a rep for the councilman said.

The group sent a similar letter to the State Liquor Authority, asking it to pull the grocery’s license to sell booze.

The letter comes after tens of thousands of people signed a petition online demanding the deli be closed. The petition had more than 121,800 signatures — 42,406 of which originated in New York — as of Tuesday afternoon.

The deli owner could not be reached for comment, and DCA did not immediately respond.